What I learned on my own I still remember. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

A scaling property: the larger the state, the more disproportionately powerful the state-within-the-state (a.k.a. deep state).

A good man is warm and respectful towards the waiter or people of supposedly lower financial and social condition.

[T]here is a category of traders who have inverse rare events, for whom volatility is often the bearer of good news. Those traders lose money frequently, but in small amounts, and make money rarely, but in large amounts. ...crisis hunters. I am happy to be one of them.